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WoEMS, EcHiNODEEMs, CcELKNTEEATES AND Sponges (rcceiit and fossil). — C. R. 



Orcutt. 3 species of Serpiilse. 

 J. Jeane:^. 4 sponges, from Florida. 

 J. Leidy. Spongilla lacustris, from the Schuylkill River, Philadelphia. 



E. Potts. Spongilla lacvstroides, from AV. Branch of Chester Creek, Del. Co., Pa. 

 J. L. Curry. Leptogorgia virgulala (locality?). 



J, T Rothrock. Columnaria sexradiala . from the Miocene of James River, Va. 



C. Morris. Tubidar-ia indimsa, from Atlantic City, N. J. 



Botany (recent). — Wm. M. Canby. 40.3 species plants from Europe, Syria, 

 Madeira, South A'rica, North Africa and Australia; 30 species collected by 

 himself in IMontana, in August, 1882, of which 9 were new to the Her- 

 barium ; flowers of Rhododindron Vasei/i, from plant brought from Jackson 

 Co.. N. C. ; roots and stem of Dryas Drumviondii Hk., from sand-bars of 

 Blackfoot R., Montana. 



Dr. Asa Gray, Cambridge Herbarium. 43-5 species collected by Cosson and 

 others in Europe, Western Asia and N. Africa (Religum 3Iaillean^) ; 77 spe- 

 cies from the Province of Minas Geraes, Brazil ; 24 species of Cyperacete, col- 

 lected by Dr. Schweinfurth in tropical Africa; 40 species from China, Feejee 

 Islands. Ecuador, etc. (from Kew Herbarium) ; 234 species of plants collected 

 by Havard, Palmer, Schaftner and others, in the northern provinces of 

 Mexico and in western Texas ; 29 j-pecies of Rosa, from Herb, of J. G. Baker, 

 European or cultivated at Kew Garden ; 48 species of Arctic plants, collected 

 in Lapland, etc., by C Flahault and others, in 1878 and 187v- ; 102 species 

 plants from Morocco and Algeria; 60 species Cuban plants, mostly collected 

 by Rugel in 1849. 



Dr. Sereno Watson, of Cambridge. 69 species collected by him in 1880 in 

 Montana, Idaho and Washington Territories. 



Baron F. von Miiller, of Melbourne, Australia. 52 species of rare Australian 

 plants. 



F. L. Scribner, of Philadelphia. Diplachne viscida Scribn. (new). Sporobolus 

 depanperaUis, Arizona, and Festuca rubra L., y»,r. grandijiora Hseckel, Sweden. 



Geo. W. holstein, of Belvidere, N. J. 35 species plants from Mitchell Co., 

 Texas. 



Thomas Meehan. 7 species Cactacex, mostly from the western regions of the 

 U. S. ; specimens of Forst/thia si/spensa Wahl., and F. viridissima Lindl., from 

 seeds of same parent, showing them to be forms of one species ; Iletsperaloe 

 ynccspfoliu, cult, at Augusta, Ga. ; Bletia apliyUa Nutt, Austin, Tex^s; Proio- 

 coccus niralis (Red Snow), collected on summits of Sierra Nevada, California, 

 by Dr. Harkness, of San Francisco; Lewisia rediviva Pursh, Nevada; Froto- 

 myces vitico'a, Ellis, n. sp. of fungus on roots of grapevine, Chestnut Hill. 



John H. Redfleld. 255 species planis collected in Western States and Territo- 

 ries by Pringle, Parish Bros, Brandegee, etc.; 551 species plants collected 

 in nprihern provinces of Mexico and on the Texan border, by Parry and 

 Palmer. 



Wm. Bell, through Charles E. Smith. 80 species planis from Santa Cruz R., 

 Patagonia, collected on Transit of Venus Expedition. 



Wra. H. Dougherty. Fruit of Vanilla planifolia, Mexico. 



J. J)onne)l Smith, of Baltimore. 21 species ferns collected in Jamaica, by J. 

 Hart, mostly new to the Herbarium. 



Aubrey H. Smith. Three species of Californian plants new to the Herbarium, 

 collected by John Eaton Leconte. 



Tlios. Bland, of N. V. Capsule and seeds of 5 species AVest Indian plants. 



Isaac Burk. 22 species of introduced plants, mostly from ballast ground, 

 Phila., and Helianthits gigantevs L., var., from Cape May. 



Chas. Millf>r. Rumex Berlandieri, Arizona; fruit of wild Vanilla, Mexico. 



Dr. AV. S. W. Ruschenberger. Wood of the Tomalo, from S .raoa. 



Isaac C. Martindale. Ell's's lOih Century of N. American Fungi; Dalea Ordim 

 Gray, a new species from Arizona ; part of the trunk of a white birch 

 branching into two limbs, afterwards reuniting into one. 



